The indoor water park resort, which has 17 locations across the country including in Wisconsin Dells and Gurnee, Illinois, plans to donate up to 10,000 room stays as part of the campaign, which is being held during National Nurses Month.

“We are immensely grateful to our nurses and health care heroes who are going above and beyond to save lives on the front line while spending months apart from their families and friends,” Murray Hennessy, chief executive officer for Great Wolf Resorts, said in a release.

For every room booked May 4-17 for stays between July 6 and Oct. 29, 2020, using the code THANKYOU, guests will get up to 50% off standard room rates and Great Wolf will donate one overnight stay to a nurse.

Great Wolf is donating the rooms to the American Nurses Association, which will handle the distribution of the rooms. The organization, which represents registered nurses, will give them to nurses in the geographic areas of the company's resorts. Nurses can book their rooms on the ANA website (nursingworld.org) beginning in mid-June and choose from dates between Aug. 1 and Dec. 17, 2020 (excluding Saturday nights and holiday periods).

While the giveaway is only for registered nurses, Great Wolf has extended their "Howlin' Heroes" discount that is for military, law enforcement, fire and EMS to include nurses, doctors and EMTs. The discount is good for up to 30% off when you use the code HEROES.

"We understand there are many others within the healthcare system who are working selflessly and tirelessly right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic," Jason Lasecki, director of media relations for Great Wolf, said in an email.

Great Wolf, which closed its resorts on March 15, has a temporary booking policy that allows guests to cancel a reservation for a full refund or change a reservation without penalties until June 16, when the resorts plan to reopen.

On April 23, 2020, one day ahead of a planned protest of Wisconsin's Safer at Home order, Madison nurses displayed more than 1,300 candles at the Wisconsin State Capitol — to represent all of Wisconsin's COVID-19 hospitalizations. Seen here is nurse Ani Weaver, an RN in the internal medicine clinic

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